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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
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Subject: Re: Hard drive controllers
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Date: 9 Nov 89 19:22:13 GMT
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In article <1003@unsvax.NEVADA.EDU> juan@arrakis.nevada.edu.uucp writes:
>I haven't seen much about the A590 hard drive controller and would 
>like to know more about it.  I need a SCSI controller with memory 
>expansion for my A500, I would like to be able to supply my own drive.  

The 590 appears to be a good interface, it is truely unfortunate that
Commodore doesn't sell it without the cheesy 20Mg drive built in for
those folks who don't want it. But it does include a 25pin SCSI connecto
on the back so that you can connect an external fast SCSI drive. 
I've found that the Jasmine packages for drives are really nice (they
sell the DirectDrive series of drives for the Mac). Anyway it costs
about the same as the 500 ($590) but you can plug 2M of RAM into it
as well.


--Chuck McManis
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